Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial is an American national memorial built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the western end of the National Mall in Washington DC, across the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and the National Mall from the Washington Monument. It was dedicated in May 1922, having been built in the style of a Greek Doric temple, and it has been a symbol of racial unity since the 1930s. On 28 August 1963, Civil Rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" Speech from the memorial's steps. The memorial is open to the public 24 hours a day.